Osteichthyes - Perciformes - Platycephalidae
Full reference: W. W. Schwarzhans. 1980. Fish otoliths from the New Zealand Tertiary. New Zealand Geological Survey Report 113:1-269
Belongs to Platycephalus according to W. Schwarzhans 2019
See also Schwarzhans 1980 and Schwarzhans et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Platycephalus aculeatus, Platycephalus fluctuosus, Platycephalus iaiunus, Platycephalus lafondi, Platycephalus parapercoides, Platycephalus petilus, Platycephalus poyartinensis, Platycephalus riremoana
Type specimen: Its type locality is Otekaieke special school, which is in a Waitakian marine limestone in the Otekaike Limestone Formation of New Zealand
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of New Zealand (7 collections)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (5)
• Oligocene of New Zealand (3)
Total: 15 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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